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====Historical books online====
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
**[http://www.greatwar1914-1918.co.uknet/research/books/british-official-history-volumes.htm History html The Official Histories of the Great War Based on Official Documents (British Official History)] 1914-1918.net. Details of most of the various volumes written. greatwar.co.uk
**''Volume I August-October 1914'': [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft 1922 edition], [https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera01edmouoft Revised text 1937 edition]
**[https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera02edmouoft ''Volume II October-November 1914''] 1925 Archive.org
***[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210675 1915 Volume I], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210676 1915 Volume II]
***[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210678 1916], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210679 1916 Volume I], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210680 1916 Volume II], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210677 1916 Appendices]
***[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210683 1917 Volume I], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210681 1917 Appendices]probably to Volume I. (Volume II details follow later).
***[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210686 1918]: The great German offensive [21st March 1918] and its preliminaries (1935), [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210684 1918 Volume II], [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210685 Volume III]
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3480009?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''1917 Volume II 7th June-10th November Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)''] published 1948. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b633844?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/84806 Pdf to download from the Digital Library of India]
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6454756 Volume of 14 Maps] National Library of Australia. The Maps are described in a catalogue entry, accessible through the [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home Catalogue Search].
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
*A novel: [https://archive.org/details/hirasinghwhenind00mund ''Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''] by Talbot Mundy. Archive.org. Published in Britain as ''Hira Singh's Tale: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''. Serialized in ''Adventure'' magazine, October 18 - December 3, 1917. Published in book form 1918. A fictional account of a cavalry regiment taken prisoners of war by the Germans.
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The nurseNurse's story Story : in which reality meets romanceIn Which Reality Meets Romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It The book is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
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